.NET Software Engineer Job Trends

.NET Software Engineer
UK

The median .NET Software Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 572 506
Rank change year-on-year +13 -66 +179
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Software Engineer 94 127 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 87 76 215
10th Percentile £40,500 £43,125 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £68,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.12% +29.52% -14.63%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

.NET Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring '.NET Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

.NET Software Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for .NET Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Software Engineer over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Software Engineer in the UK

.NET Software Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +30 87 £61,250 -12.50% 80
UK excluding London +15 61 £55,000 -19.12% 83
Work from Home +47 40 £60,000 - 41
London +55 23 £100,000 +17.65% 5
North of England -13 23 £52,500 -22.79% 19
South East +48 16 £53,750 -27.85% 20
South West +6 16 £55,000 -20.00% 11
Yorkshire -29 14 £40,000 -41.18% 6
North West +20 7 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Scotland +4 3 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Midlands +8 2 £67,500 +12.50% 9
North East +7 2 £100,000 +25.00% 2
East Midlands -15 2 £67,500 +28.27% 6
East of England +16 1 £85,000 +65.85% 16

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, .NET Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring .NET Software Engineer in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) .NET
1 94 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 75 (79.79%) C#
3 32 (34.04%) Azure
4 30 (31.91%) SQL
5 25 (26.60%) Agile
6 23 (24.47%) DevOps
7 19 (20.21%) .NET Core
7 19 (20.21%) CI/CD
8 17 (18.09%) Containerisation
8 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
9 16 (17.02%) ASP.NET
9 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (14.89%) JavaScript
10 14 (14.89%) SQL Server
11 13 (13.83%) AWS
11 13 (13.83%) Docker
12 12 (12.77%) AngularJS
12 12 (12.77%) Microservices
13 11 (11.70%) .NET Framework
13 11 (11.70%) SaaS
14 10 (10.64%) Azure AKS
15 9 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
15 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (9.57%) RESTful
15 9 (9.57%) Scrum
16 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
16 8 (8.51%) MVC
16 8 (8.51%) React
17 7 (7.45%) Computer Science

.NET Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 32 (34.04%) Azure
2 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (13.83%) AWS
4 11 (11.70%) SaaS
5 10 (10.64%) Azure AKS
6 7 (7.45%) GitHub
7 5 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.19%) GCP
8 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.13%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.13%) Serverless
10 1 (1.06%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.06%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.06%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.19%) MySQL
4 3 (3.19%) Redis
5 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.26%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 14 (14.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.32%) Finance
3 4 (4.26%) Tech for Good
4 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Billing
5 1 (1.06%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (20.21%) .NET Core
3 16 (17.02%) ASP.NET
4 12 (12.77%) AngularJS
5 11 (11.70%) .NET Framework
6 9 (9.57%) RESTful
7 8 (8.51%) React
8 6 (6.38%) Entity Framework
8 6 (6.38%) REST
9 5 (5.32%) Kafka
9 5 (5.32%) Vue
10 4 (4.26%) CSS
10 4 (4.26%) HTML
10 4 (4.26%) HTML5
10 4 (4.26%) Sass
11 3 (3.19%) Blazor
11 3 (3.19%) CSS3
11 3 (3.19%) Dapper ORM
11 3 (3.19%) Node.js
12 2 (2.13%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.38%) Hedge funds
3 4 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.13%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Fedora
1 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 25 (26.60%) Agile
3 23 (24.47%) DevOps
4 19 (20.21%) CI/CD
5 17 (18.09%) Containerisation
6 12 (12.77%) Microservices
7 9 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (9.57%) Scrum
8 8 (8.51%) MVC
9 7 (7.45%) Computer Science
9 7 (7.45%) Fintech
9 7 (7.45%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (6.38%) Code Quality
10 6 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (5.32%) Clean Code
11 5 (5.32%) High Availability
11 5 (5.32%) SDLC
11 5 (5.32%) Software Architecture
12 4 (4.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (79.79%) C#
2 30 (31.91%) SQL
3 14 (14.89%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (7.45%) Degree
1 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) QA
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat